Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.